Connie Mack and the early years of baseball /

Connie Mack was the Grand Old Man of baseball. This book, spanning first fifty-two years of Mack's life, covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner. It tells how Mack, a school dropout at fourteen, created strategies for winning baseball and principles for managing men long befor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macht, Norman L. (Norman Lee), 1929-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Mack, Connie, > 1862-1956.
Mack, Connie, > 1862-1956
Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team) > History.
Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team)
Baseball managers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
Baseball team owners > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
Baseball > United States > History.
Base-ball > Managers > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Biographies.
Base-ball > Propriétaires d'équipes > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
Baseball
Baseball managers
Baseball team owners
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
United States
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Growing up in East Brookfield
  • The young catcher
  • A rookie in Meriden
  • The bones battery
  • From Hartford to Washington
  • Life in the big leagues
  • Mr. and Mrs. Connie Mack
  • Jumping with the brotherhood
  • The players' league
  • Uncertainties of life and baseball
  • Connie Mack, manager
  • The terrible-tempered Mr. Mack
  • Fired
  • Milwaukee
  • Working the system
  • Learning how to handle men
  • Marching behind Ban Johnson
  • Launching the new American League
  • The City of Brotherly Love and "Uncle Ben" Shibe
  • Columbia Park and the "Athaletics"
  • Raiding the National League
  • The bullfrogs
  • The uniqueness of Napoleon Lajoie
  • Winning the battle of Philadelphia
  • A staggering blow
  • Schreck and the rube and the white elephant
  • Connie Mack's first pennant
  • Signing a treaty
  • The profits of peace
  • The Macks of Philadelphia
  • The first "official" World Series
  • Rebuilding begins
  • "We wuz robbed"
  • Connie Mack's baseball school
  • Shibe Park
  • Connie's kids graduate
  • World champions
  • Mr. and Mrs. Connie Mack--part II
  • The $100,000 infield
  • The home run Baker World Series
  • Coasting down to third place
  • Speaking of money
  • Captain Hook
  • The second beating of John McGraw
  • Another baseball war
  • The Athletics win another pennant--ho hum
  • Swept
  • The end of the beginning.

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